In addition, there is keeping up with Plaxo (which I’m dropping as officially broken for me at the end of June), Myspace (which I have a personal resolution to begin using for recordings by the end of summer), Youtube (same, but end of year), and of course the nGenera internal portal writing that I do, which is the main location where you could follow me…that is, if you had an e-mail account that ends with the phrase “@ngenera.com” on it.

Speaking of “following,” I also tweet a few times daily (as nGenera) and occasionally as me, though I definitely fall into the “lurker” category – clearly an artifact of my post-great depression, boomer DNA.

And, with this burst of mid-June 2009 activity – as we draw nigh on the end of the decade that brought us not one, but two(!) boom-and-bust cycles…dot-coms and derivatives – I officially pledge to produce a more timely mix of professional and personal musings.

Good month for nGenera – settling in with the Collaborative Enterprise Management (CEM) theme, which seems to be getting traction and filling the void in the enterprise that analysts can now see is left present by the consumer-esque, one-trick pony applications that dominate the market in web 2.0 for the enterprise

Spring break was really weird this year, with all 3 kids having their breaks at different times:

first Ben, home from Case Westen, pretty much chillin’ in front of the Wii and enjoying being waited on hand and foot

then Andrew, doing the same, except substituting the xBox 360 for the Wii – fortunately we found a new one driving home past Zilker park one evening, purchased off the side of the road from a painter who was needign gas money to get himself back home to Colorado after a job here went bust

finally Lauren, week 3, who was focused on getting her act together for her MCAT test and lining up things for her Teach for America application.

But, we did manage to get an evening of great music in at the Mohawk Patio, catching both the Ettes and the Hold Steady, plus 2 other acts. A pretty terrific deal at $20 for the cover charge. We love SXSW!